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Grant Kester is a Professor of Art History and a leading figure in the critical dialogue surrounding socially engaged art practice. He is the founding editor of FIELD: Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism. Kester's extensive publishing portfolio includes influential works such as 'Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays' (Duke University Press, 1998), 'Conversation Pieces: Community Communication in Modern Art' (University of California Press, 2004, 2013 edition), and 'Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art' (co-edited with Bill Kelley, Duke University Press, 2017). He has contributed essays to significant anthologies including 'Art Theory: A West World Anthology of Changing Ideas' (Wiley/Blackwell, 2020) and 'The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945' (Blackwell, 2006). His recent two-volume study, 'Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy in the Enlightenment and the Avant-Garde' (Duke University Press, 2023), delves into the history of aesthetic autonomy, further establishing his authority in the field.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).